AESCHYLEAN • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Aeschylean

... "points of resemblance," as Jeffrey pointed out and Byron proudly admitted, between Manfred and the Prometheus of AEschylus. Plainly, here and there, "the tone and pitch of the composition," and "the victim in the more solemn parts," are AEschylean. Again, with regard to the supernatural, there was the stimulus of the conversation of the Shelleys and of Lewis, brimful of magic and ghost-lore; and lastly, there was the glamour of Christabel, "the wild and ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron